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asyntactic
[ ey-sin-tak-tik ]
adjective
Grammar.
- consisting of morphemes that are combined differently from their mode of combination as separate words in a phrase, as bookstore, which is an asyntactic compound, while the same elements are combined syntactically in store for books.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of asyntactic1
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Asyntactic, as-in-tak′tik, adj. loosely put together, irregular, ungrammatical.
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Nor does it much detract from the grace of the work that of the "asyntactic disorder" of which Mr. Pattison accuses Milton's prose, some examples may be found in his own.
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